Calamari in North Myrtle Beach

5 restaurants in North Myrtle Beach list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Villa Tuscanna at $9.00, listed as FRIED CALAMARI. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $13.46 at Buoys on the Boulevard, so the two ends of the list are $4.46 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so North Myrtle Beach is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 483 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Myrtle Beach, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in North Myrtle Beach? Villa Tuscanna, at $9.00 on 97 US Highway 17 North. The same dish reaches $13.46 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.46.

What should calamari cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in North Myrtle Beach that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Myrtle Beach, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.